[2] Although he was used as a specialist batsman he struggled in his matches, except for an innings of 38 not out which he made when playing with Surrey against Kent at Mote Park.
[4] After serving as a cadet at the Royal Military College at Sandhurst, Dunn joined the Liverpool Regiment in 1882 and was promoted to the rank of captain seven years later.
[5] In 1889 he was posted to Hong Kong with the Army Service Corps and began playing cricket for the UK territory.
In a match against Shanghai which Hong Kong hosted, Dunn scored 107 to help his team win by an innings and 123 runs.
[7] Later that year in October, Hong Kong played an away match against Shanghai and travelled home on the SS Bokhara, which sank in a typhoon off the coast of Formosa.